Lead Test Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Senior Test Engineer, where you'll enhance the quality of cloud-native software systems. Collaborate with an Agile team to drive quality assurance throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll be responsible for developing and executing tests, mentoring team members, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to improve processes. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact the quality of products used by thousands of businesses globally. If you're passionate about quality and eager to work in a dynamic environment, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile methodologies and software testing techniques.
• Practical knowledge of AWS and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Mentor team members in quality assurance practices.
• Develop and maintain test artifacts using various tools.
• Manage regression testing within the development cycle.

Skills

Agile development methodologies

ATDD

BDD

Unit testing

Integration testing

Acceptance testing

AWS Cloud services

CI/CD pipelines

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Tools

Cypress

Bruno

Azure DevOps

Job description

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Creditsafe are expanding their internal Customer Management platform team, the backbone of all Creditsafe products and services. We’re looking for a Senior Test Engineer experienced in testing cloud-native software systems.

This role requires someone who can foster team collaboration and ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

WHO ARE WE?

Privately owned and independently minded, Creditsafe prides itself on being pro-active and different. Our journey began in Oslo, Norway in 1997, where we had a dream of using the ‘revolutionary’ internet to deliver instant access company credit reports to small and medium-sized businesses. Creditsafe realised this dream and changed the market for the better, for businesses of all sizes.

Our continued success has made us the most used business data provider in the world and one of the industry’s strongest growing business intelligence providers. Today Creditsafe has 23 offices across 3 continents serving 110,000 customers from SMEs to enterprise businesses.

THE TEAM

This opportunity is to join an Agile team of system and test engineers who are responsible for a critical Creditsafe platform underpinning all our products and services. The platform is responsible for all customer provisioning, authentication, entitlement and auditing and handles millions of transactions a day. The team continue to extend the platform to support Creditsafe’s growing product portfolio whilst re-imagining using best-of-breed AWS technologies.

The wider Quality Assurance community within Creditsafe work together in driving a culture of quality into the teams acting as knowledge experts on quality. We test throughout the lifecycle and believe that the whole team is responsible for the quality of our deliverables. We implement intelligent automation and are proponents of thinking critically about the features developed by our teams.

JOB PROFILE

Based on the test strategy you will:

1. Interrogate and question requirements and assumptions in user stories.
2. Collaborate with the Agile team throughout the Sprint to produce valuable test scenarios and respond to new information.
3. Develop, enhance, and execute tests that add value to the team deliverables.
4. Contribute to the existing automation framework by adding tests based on appropriate test scenarios and design patterns.
5. Confidently communicate test results with your team members and stakeholders using evidence and reports.
6. Be an advocate for quality and actively promote this within your team and the wider development community in Creditsafe.
7. Coach and mentor other engineers in the wider QA community in Creditsafe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• Support and mentor team members in all aspects of quality, building and owning a culture of good QA practice.
• Provide line management to Test Engineers.
• Leverage opportunities using internally provided generative AI to improve process and quality.
• Develop and maintain test artefacts created using tools such as Cypress, Bruno and Azure Devops.
• Carry out functional, non-functional and acceptance testing in-line with the test strategy and processes.
• Use generative AI to reduce repetitive manual activity, improve product quality and Agile processes.
• Work closely with their Agile team to promote a whole team approach to quality.
• Manage and coordinate regression testing as part of the development cycle.
• Be the quality specialist within your Agile team, advocating for the appropriate levels of testing and take the initiative to make improvements.
• Document approaches and processes that improve the quality effort for use by team members and the wider QA community.
• Have strong practical knowledge of software testing techniques and the ability to select the correct technique dependent on the problem at hand.
• Accurately and concisely document tasks using Azure Dev Ops.
• Undertake peer reviews of test artefacts produced by the team.
• Communicate progress in an understandable manner to relevant stakeholders.
• Creation and maintenance of concise and accurate defect reports in line with the established defect process.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A good understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of ATDD, BDD, Unit testing, Integration testing and Acceptance testing
• A good understanding of the defect management lifecycle.
• Practical understanding of AWS Cloud services, with good knowledge and experience of serverless and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience working with data pipelines and delivery would be advantageous.
• A practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops preferred)
• A good understanding of the SDLC and test activities that can be performed at each phase.
• An understanding of performance testing strategies and how to apply them.
• Teamwork – Encourages cooperation, collaboration and communication both within their team and the wider test community
• Problem Solving – Identifies problems within the team that would threaten the value of the product and seeks solutions by collaboration.
• Experience of line management is desirable, including performance development planning, monitoring objectives, etc.

Creditsafe is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity. Please contact Creditsafe if there is any support you need with your application.